Chapter 289 – 289. Main Character (2)
“Is this a guy you know?”
“No, I only knew the name.”
“What about him?”
“… Riod. Do you believe in something like fate? Or, the future is decided.”
“I came to know that there is an inexplicable existence called God in the world. There can’t be anything you can’t believe is different, right?”
“I have nothing to say, but…”
The information Yuria provided about an ancient person named ‘Cha Han-seong’ was information that even Eun-hyeon could not easily retrieve.
When this is revealed, it is natural that YuRia’s secret must also be revealed.
Talking only about Cha Han-sung’s information and explaining it to Liode is one of the ways, but it was not easy to get him to understand because too much information had to be kept private to do so.
“I will explain soon. Now… Just watch over me.”
“I’m still monitoring his every move right now.”
“What? Why?”
Did an ancient man named Cha Han-seong do something special from the start?
Lyod’s strangely frowning expression seemed very uncomfortable.
“… The opportunity to join came through the introduction of his daughter.”
“Ayra? With what point of contact?”
Among the information YuRia talked about, there was no point of contact between Eira and Cha Hansung.
She wondered, ‘Did I just eat it?’, But Eun-hyeon thought that she wasn’t such an idiot.
Even if her future poem is wrong, it means that it is very firmly wrong.
“They said they came to support the Mograf frontier as an adventurer. There, she ran into Eira, and it seems that he told Eira about the history of taking the entrance exam for Artia last year.”
“She was acting as an adventurer… No, more than that.”
Eunhyun narrowed her eyes and stared at Leo De with a questionable gaze.
“… I don’t think he would have recruited someone who failed the exam once as a daughter’s introduction, right?”
Riod, like Krasir, is not someone who selects new members based on personal connections or power.
That’s why Eun-hyeon, who was embraced by Eun-hyeon, felt something about the character Cha Han-seong and acknowledged him as a knight.
Even he, like Eunhyun, is not a citizen of this country.
If it was a citizen, there is no way that Eun-hyeon couldn’t find it until now.
He was not an aristocrat, but rather a commoner. What possibility did he sense and accept him as a knight?
Eunhyun was curious about that.
“It is the opposite. From one to ten, I checked them all. I had no intention of making a rash judgment just because it was an introduction from my daughter.”
“… Did I just feel a lot of selfish feelings for you?”
Noticing that he was very upset because he was involved in Eira, he put on a puzzled look at the fact that he had taken his entrance exam with very personal feelings.
“It must be an illusion.”
“It’s the same as acknowledging it when you understand what it means. Well, you’re my father too, so I understand.”
He’s blunt and doesn’t express his emotions honestly, but it wasn’t that difficult for Eunhyeon to read his emotions as he’d seen him for a long time.
Soon, Eun-hyeon paid attention to one fact in what Riod said.
“But last year they were rejected, but this time they accepted them as members… For what?”
“You have a special interest in that rookie, don’t you? Is there really something?”
“There is.”
Eunhyun nodded without hesitation.
However, Lyode noticed that the reason why he couldn’t properly explain the contents was because various circumstances overlapped.
In the first place, while asking about the existence of a new member named Cha Hyun-seong, the use of the ambiguous word ‘destiny’ makes us guess that it is unusual.
Riod didn’t ask deeply, thinking that someday, Eun-hyeon would explain it properly.
“Because at that time he wasn’t qualified enough to join the squad.”
“Then you said you had the qualifications to join the team in that one year?”
“It didn’t just become stronger, it changed as if it had become a completely different person.”
Unaware of Cha Han-sung’s level last year, Eun-hyeon kept her mouth shut and waited for Riod’s answer.
“As you know, in the entrance exam for my knights, the personal connections or status of the applicants are not factors that can gain an advantage. Since differences in social status are not taken into account at all, many adventurers who are commoners apply for the regular annual entrance exam.”
“I know that.”
Even among adventurers who are confident in their skills, there are many applicants who yearn for the job of ‘knight’ and apply for it every year.
It is only natural that more adventurers and commoners flock in and the competition to join intensifies, especially since the difference in social status is not taken into account.
“It’s amazing that you recognized him among so many applicants.”
“Because I was very impressed.”
“You said you weren’t strong?”
“Different. It means that the impression was deep because it was so pathetic.”
“… Ok?”
Eunhyun widened her eyes as if to say something.
“It was absurd that at the age of just becoming an adult, my skills were below the standard, and the motivation for applying was ‘I just wanted to try it.'”
“…”
“I couldn’t entrust the security of this country to a guy who had joined just out of curiosity, without a specific goal set, and without a clear motive.”
That would be tantamount to insulting herself and Artia itself, who had built up a great reputation and honor so far.
“But now is it wrong?”
What is the reason for choosing such a pathetic man after a year?
“I told you earlier. He changed as if he had become a completely different person. His tired-looking eyes were full of miasma, and unlike the past, when he had a light and frivolous attitude, he learned to be serious and polite. It was like watching a ‘boy’ grow up and become a ‘young man’. Maybe there was a change of heart while working as an adventurer in a year.”
“Hmm…”
Eunhyeon continued to listen to what Liod had to say while making a small choo-imsae.
“The guy has politely apologized for his rude attitude in his entrance exam last year and expressed his desire to join Artia. They say it has two motives, the first is to be strong, and the second is to get revenge.”
“Revenge…”
“He said that he had an opponent he wanted to capture while taking on the task of investigating a crime. At the same time, it is a place where he can build skills that can stand up to his opponent, and the story so far is that he hoped to join Artia, the knights of the kingdom.”
“Ability?”
“To be honest… There were still many shortcomings, but the changed attitude and the speed of growth itself were very noteworthy.”
In particular, it is said that she has poison in her eyes to the extent that she can’t recognize her, and she couldn’t find any pitiful side of her past in her appearance full of improvement.
“So it didn’t catch my eye, but did you mean that you accepted it as a new member once you saw the potential?”
“Yes.”
“I knew the general circumstances, but what is it? What’s that grumpy face? Could it be that Eira and Cha Hanseong have a relationship like that?”
When asked about the current relationship between Ayla and Cha Han-sung, Riod’s face drastically distorted.
He glared at Eun-hyeon with a face he didn’t want to imagine and opened his mouth.
“… Do you think I would give my daughter to such a guy?”
“You seem to be concerned about that situation right now?”
“I can’t admit it.”
“Let’s see, there might be no feelings between the two of you yet.”
Eun-hyeon, who did not know the exact situation, could not understand what kind of air current was flowing that made Riod so excited.
“You don’t understand my heart because you haven’t raised a daughter. Ayra is now at a very mature age, and other men’s eyes…”
“Ah, yes. Okay.”
While listening to her friend’s complaint against her will, Eun-hyeon and her friend headed to Artia Headquarters.
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Percussion!
“Ugh!?”
As their wooden swords crossed each other and their attacks collided, Erin felt a peculiar strange feeling in her opponent, a black-haired, black-eyed man.
‘… Has the movement changed?’
Cha Han-seong’s wooden sword, which was clunky and wielded with full arm strength, began to change into sharp and sophisticated swordsmanship little by little whenever it collided with Erin’s wooden sword.
It was as if she was copying her own three sword techniques.
“…”
Cha Han-seong, who bounced off each other’s wooden swords and distanced himself from Erin, carefully gripped the wooden sword he was holding, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
The movement of the sword was just imitating his own swordsmanship, and the proper distribution of power and posture were infinitely immature.
But…
Percussion! Percussion!
It is said that he did not do his best, but he was certainly observing Erin’s movements carefully and imitating the girl’s movements.
It is amazing that the posture is corrected every time the wooden sword is struck, and it reproduces the flexible movement as it starts distributing the power.
But just because she was following her diligently, her Erin’s level wasn’t that soft, to the point where she copied Erin’s accumulated skills as they were.
Whatever it was, it was Erin who overpowered her new knights to a level where even if they attacked in large numbers, they could not be defeated.
Erin, who launched an attack through her charge, instantly closed her distance with her Cha Hanseong.
“Big… !”
The moment she was about to swing her sword to strike the shoulder of her Erin, who appeared right in front of her own eyes.
She slashed Erin with his wooden sword before she could even launch her attack, then she quickly retrieved her own wooden sword.
As Erin’s wooden sword, which had slashed Cha Han-seong’s sword, was aimed at Cha Han-seong’s neck with a graceful line, the result of the sparring between the two ended with Erin’s victory.
“… Lost.”
After the words of Cha Han-seong, who raised both hands in surrender and dropped his wooden sword, the knights of the training ground again trembled.
“Whoa…”
“Oh oh! The young lady won again!?”
“How many consecutive wins have you had with this!?”
“Don’t be discouraged, newcomer! Pretty good for a rookie!”
Fortunately, however, rather than a sarcastic voice like the previous article, words of consolation were heard.
Amidst the tumult, Cha Hanseong looked closely at Erin.
“Are you not a knight?”
“Yes? Oh, right. I am now… Um, I’m doing an adventurer.”
Erin, a bit hesitant about how to introduce herself, finally told her about her job, which she had been active in until recently.
“I have never seen such a strong female adventurer who uses a sword. Furthermore… The amount of training contained in the sword…”
“A sheep?”
“Ah, I… His skills aren’t that great, but his specialty is analyzing and copying the movements of swordsmanship he’s seen once. That’s why observing people’s movements is my specialty… Naturally, every time I bumped the wooden swords, I could feel how much effort and practice he made to create the current swordsmanship.”
“Is that so? Thank you for the compliment.”
In the meantime, Erin felt embarrassed as she felt that she had been praised for the results of her hard work.
‘By the way, you say that you follow the movements of a swordsman you’ve seen once? What the hell are you doing this person?’
She felt a sense of wonder at the identity of the man with black hair and black eyes who was performing impossible skills for her.
Soon, as soon as Eun-hyeon arrived at the headquarters, Erin, who sensed his presence at the outdoor training ground, ran to greet him.
“Hyun-a!”
